Is it possible to take the voice out of a song?

[Yzzim]

Looking for some background music for a wedding but cannot find just the background music. Is there anyway to take the voice/lyrics out of a song via software?

 

[her209]

If they are on different tracks.

 

[nuonce]

i think there was a program for old winamp that worked for a kareoke effect (can't remember name) but you couldn't save the end results, so no i don't know any programs.

without a program, i would find a portion of a song without vocals that i like and cut it and loop it with other cuts from the same song using cool edit or sound forge.

 

[Nutdotnet]

Originally posted by: nuonce
i think there was a program for old winamp that worked for a kareoke effect (can't remember name) but you couldn't save the end results, so no i don't know any programs.

without a program, i would find a portion of a song without vocals that i like and cut it and loop it with other cuts from the same song using cool edit or sound forge.

That is about as best as you are going to get. The old "kareoke" plugins and what-not are crap. All they do is attempt to filter out the frequencies that most vocals lie in. With this the plugin usually takes out a bunch of other stuff in the song and the end result is pretty lousy.

 

[cchen]

I don't think so... in the vocals of a song, the frequencies fluctuate... and so do the frequencies of the background music.... it might be difficult (or impossible) to distinguish between the two, so you wouldn't be able to filter out the right frequencies

 

[tranceport]

no.

You can remove certian frequency sections but you will remove other sounds that fall in the same section.

 

[yoda291]

analogx has an activex control that'll work. There's a winamp plugin too I think...which means just to output to the wav device adn you have a wav file without the vocals...provided the track isn't weird or vocals don't sit in the center.

 

[yellowperil]

If the vocals are in the center and everything else is panned you can use a wave editor like Cool Edit Pro. By inverting the phase on one channel you can cancel out most of the centered sound. I wouldn't recommend it because you can still hear part of the vocals and it screws up the other instruments, but it's the best you can do.